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Elsevier Awarded $15M in Lawsuit Against Pirate Sites

By Calvin Reid | 06/23/2017 @ 09:00AM

Elsevier has been awarded $15 million in damages in a copyright infringement judgement against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, online repositories of millions of pirated scientific documents.
iBooks Bestsellers: 'Camino Island' Surfs Along at #1

By John Maher | 06/22/2017 @ 08:30AM

John Grisham's first career beach read stays at the crest of the wave on the iBooks bestseller list, followed by Nora Roberts's latest at #2.
HarperCollins to Offer Multi-User E-Book Access to Libraries

By Andrew Albanese | 06/22/2017 @ 12:00AM

In a major announcement ahead of this week’s 2017 ALA Annual Conference, HarperCollins has agreed to make a selection of its e-book backlist available to public library users on a multi-user model, via Midwest Tape’s hoopla digital platform.
iBooks Bestsellers: Grisham Hits the Beach—and #1

By John Maher | 06/16/2017 @ 01:00PM

John Grisham heads to the beach for the first time in his novelistic career as his latest, 'Camino Island,' set around a popular bookstore in a sleepy Florida resort town, hits #1 in Apple's iBooks store.
Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, June 11, 2017

| 06/16/2017 @ 12:00PM

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended June 11, 2017.
In New York, a Library for Your Subway Ride

By John Maher | 06/13/2017 @ 09:30AM

The public libraries of New York, Brooklyn, and Queens have teamed up with the Metropolitan Transit Authority and Transit Wireless to launch Subway Library, which offers free e-book downloads in subway stations.
Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, June 4, 2017

| 06/09/2017 @ 12:00PM

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended June 4, 2017.
iBooks Bestsellers: Hawkins Stays Unflappable On Top

By John Maher | 06/08/2017 @ 08:00AM

Paula Hawkins’s ‘Into the Water’ remained on top of the iBooks bestseller list last week, with Nora Roberts’s latest, ‘Come Sundown,’ at #2.
Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, May 28, 2017

| 06/02/2017 @ 12:00PM

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended May 28, 2017.
iBooks Bestsellers: Hawkins's 'Water' Stays Strong

By John Maher | 05/31/2017 @ 09:00AM

Readers keep Paula Hawkins's 'Into the Water' swimming along at the top of the iBooks bestseller list, while Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' drops to #5.
Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, May 21, 2017

| 05/26/2017 @ 12:00PM

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended May 21, 2017.
Amazon Publishing Books Faring Better on Amazon's New Bestseller Lists

By Jim Milliot | 05/25/2017 @ 10:00AM

Four Amazon Publishing titles, which drew poor BookScan print sales numbers, are among the top 20 fiction bestsellers on the latest iteration of the e-tailer's new weekly bestseller list, bolstered by sales in non-print formats.
iBooks Bestsellers: Thrillers Keep On Thrilling

By John Maher | 05/24/2017 @ 09:00AM

The iBooks lists kept consistent this week, with four thriller titles in the top five, all penned by heavyweight authors.
Scribd Reports 500K Subscribers, Adds Newspaper Content

By Calvin Reid | 05/23/2017 @ 09:00AM

Online subscription service Scribd marks a year of profitability by revealing the size of its subscriber base and adding access to selected newspaper articles to its content library.
Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, May 14, 2017

| 05/19/2017 @ 12:00PM

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended May 14, 2017.
Tigra Live Animation Bringing AR to Books

By Jim Milliot | 05/19/2017 @ 09:30AM

A new company started by the founder of the remainder house US Media Partners, Tigra Live Animation, has developed an augmented reality program that can animate books.
iBooks Bestsellers: Readers Stay In the 'Water'

By John Maher | 05/17/2017 @ 08:00AM

Paula Hawkins fans keep swimming following the release of 'Into the Water,' the author's much-anticipated follow-up to 'The Girl on the Train' and last week's top-selling title.
Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, May 7, 2017

| 05/12/2017 @ 12:00PM

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended May 7, 2017.
iBooks Bestsellers: Readers Dive 'Into the Water'

By John Maher | 05/11/2017 @ 05:00AM

Readers dove head-first back into Paula Hawkins's world, with 'Into the Water' heading the latest iBooks bestseller list.
Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, April 30, 2017

| 05/05/2017 @ 12:00PM

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended April 30, 2017.

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